文章基本信息

标题：Hypersonic Cyclone
作者：William O’Neal
期刊名称：Games for Windows
印刷版ISSN：1933-6160
出版年度：2004
卷号：January 2004
出版社：Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Hypersonic Cyclone

William O’Neal

Price: $3,474

Rating: 4.0

Hypersonic��s Cyclone is one of the few machines to show up with the Athlon 64 3200+ processor, and this machine performed so well that I��m wondering if the Athlon 64 FX-51 is worth the added cost. Initially, the Cyclone had some technical issues, but machines from Hypersonic come with a binder that includes the name, photo, and e-mail address of the technician who built it��in this case, Rob. After looking into the problem with Rob, we discovered that one of the hard drives had been damaged during shipping and needed to be replaced. Once that was fixed, the machine proceeded to blaze through the various game tests and benchmarks. Because it had problems out of the box, I had to ding Hypersonic, but Rob��s speedy diagnosis and resolution earned the company top honors for support.

On the component side, the Cyclone doesn��t have the all-out storage capabilities that many of the others have, with just two 36GB hard drives in a 72GB RAID-0 configuration. Ultimately, though, the Cyclone is still an awesome machine.

What��s Unique?

AMD��s Athlon 64 3200+ is both fast and economical.